Brothers Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder in Aid of Racketeering Involving False Identification Document Ring

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 7, 2014. Two brothers were sentenced today to life in federal prison for murder in aid of racketeering and related crimes they were convicted of after a seven-week trial in U.S. District Court last year. JULIO and MANUEL LEIJA-SANCHEZ, who operated a lucrative, black-market counterfeit identification document business in Chicago’s Little Village community for at least 15 years, each received the mandatory life sentence from U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer. There is no federal…